Power Trip

$200.00

Everyone has love/hate experiences with automobiles, especially in sprawling Los Angeles. Since the students who created this edition are from many parts of the world, they decided to share their perspectives on the advantages and disadvantages of owning, driving, crashing, modifying, and caring for cars, both old and brand new. They drew upon the materiality and physicality of vehicles for inspiration.

This edition was created and produced by eight students from four of the Claremont Colleges in the Typography and the Book Arts class at Scripps College. Centaur and its companion Arrighi were thoughtfully hand typeset in 12 pt. type. The texts were printed on four Vandercook presses.

In our Goudy Workshop on papermaking this semester, we had used 45 mil Buttercut sandblasting rubber for making watermarks. We decided to try it out for imagery as an alternative to our usual linoleum. The images cut from Buttercut were glued onto MDF bases. To seal the material, it was brushed with acrylic gel medium. Some images were also carved with linoleum cutting tools. Metallic inks were employed for the colors of the images.

Since automobiles are mostly made of metal, luscious metallic colors in the extensive Stardream line were chosen for the paper. The .040-inch aluminum covers were cut by Industrial Metal Supply and decoratively finished by Bud’s Metal Polishing. The students softened the edges with a delicate final sanding. Each section was sewn into the accordion folds with metallic thread.

The students who produced the book are: Melanie Biles, Lizzy Freedman, Genna Kules, Sherman Lam, Kai McDaniel, Allison Mis, Vivian Pham, and Niyati Shenoy. The size is 8″ tall x 6.75″ wide x 1″ thick and has 107 pages. The book was produced in an edition of 102 copies. The price of the book is $200 plus applicable sales tax.

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